Monday, April 30th
Monday, April 30th
We get up and have breakfast at the Courtfield, a nearby pub (another Taylor Walker pub).
By this point, Olivia has become very sick, is running a consistent fever, and is getting worse rather than better. We go to a nearby walk-in medical clinic (Greg spotted it while making wrong turns trying to find the hotel on Sunday). It's part of the National Health Service. The clinic is pretty new, with a spacious and well-decorated waiting room. The attendant warns us that there will be a bit of a wait, and that they will have to charge us the full amount since we're not part of the NHS. We wait for fifteen minutes, and then see the doctor (not a nurse practitioner), who prescribes Amoxicillin. The cost is £30, about $50.
We go to the chemist across the street to fill the prescription, which costs another £8 (about $13). Interestingly, the pharmacy does not have name-brand drugs that are ubiquitous to us: Tylenol, DayQuil and NightQuil, even Acetaminophen. They do have Ibuprofen and Paracetamol, which is another generic name for Acetaminophen. The whole experience costs about $60 and takes less than an hour. Not too shabby.